A man has been prosecuted after residents complained that he'd allowed rotting food and household waste to build up in his garden before dumping more rubbish on the street.

Duarte Goncalvas Pires of West Street, Scunthorpe, pleaded guilty to five offences, including breaching an abatement notice, fly-tipping and not making sure his rubbish was removed by a licenced carrier.

Residents complained to North Lincolnshire Council when the rotting waste in his garden started to smell.

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The council said when he was issued with an abatement notice by Environmental Health Officers, he failed to get rid of the rubbish in the time allowed.

When the authority then prepared to have the waste removed at Pires' own cost, he proceeded to dump some of the rubbish on a grass verge on Frances Street and instructed others to get rid of the remaining waste for him - which was found in nearby alleyways and streets.

Pires was given a 12 month community order with a 100-hour unpaid work requirement and was ordered to pay £266 investigation costs, £200 court costs and an £85 victim surcharge at Grimsby Magistrates Court on Friday, November 3.

Speaking after the case, Councillor Richard Hannigan said: "The council provides a comprehensive waste and recycling service to all our residents to allow them to get rid of their waste in an easy and safe way. Mr Duarte Goncalvas Pires instead was piling up black bags and rotting waste in his gardens and we had to take action for the health and wellbeing of other residents.

"As well as dumping some of his rubbish on the street, Duarte Goncalvas Pires let an unlicensed waste carrier take away his rubbish, and this was also dumped on the street.

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"To keep our area clean and safe to live in, we all have a responsibility to ensure we get rid of our waste in the proper way – and the vast majority of our residents do."

Council investigations have found that rogue waste carriers – advertising themselves as a ‘man with a van’ on social media – are illegally taking residents’ waste and then fly-tipping it.

All residents and businesses have a legal responsibility to make sure their waste is disposed of correctly; if you let an unlicensed waste carrier take away your rubbish, you are breaking the law and may be liable to a fine and even a criminal record.